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Madgex Win Top Employer Award for SMEs at Working Mums Awards

We are proud to announce Madgex has received an award from Work​ing​mums​.co​.uk in recog­ni­tion of our sup­port to work­ing parents.

Madgex won the Top Employ­er Award for SMEs (26−250 employ­ees) for its focus on ​“female career pro­gres­sion, sup­port for dads and a strong empha­sis on flex­i­ble work­ing and work life bal­ance across the board”.

The Work​ing​mums​.co​.uk Top Employ­er Awards aim to encour­age best prac­tice in fam­i­ly friend­ly work­ing, so that employ­ers are more inclu­sive at every level.

The cer­e­mo­ny at Soho Hotel cel­e­brat­ed the UK’s most pro­gres­sive busi­ness­es, and Madgex was up against high cal­i­bre com­pe­ti­tion, includ­ing Lloyds Bank­ing Group, Voda­fone, The IT Touch and Carillion.

This award is a great achieve­ment for Madgex and tes­ta­ment to our efforts to pro­vide a flex­i­ble, sup­port­ive work­ing envi­ron­ment for fam­i­lies. We have a cre­ative, diverse team of experts that we’re so proud of, espe­cial­ly in a chal­leng­ing industry.

How­ev­er we want to do more. While 65% of our senior man­age­ment are female, only 30% of all Madgex employ­ees and 20% of our tech teams are women. We are com­mit­ted to increas­ing the num­ber of women work­ing in tech­nol­o­gy and our ambi­tion is to become gen­der neutral.

We will also con­tin­ue to lis­ten to all our employee’s needs and strive to make Madgex a sup­port­ive work­ing envi­ron­ment for everyone.

In addi­tion to our award, we were short­list­ed for the Best Dad’s Award, which recog­nis­es com­pa­nies who have spe­cif­ic poli­cies aimed at work­ing fathers.

Gillian Nis­sim founder of Work​ing​mums​.co​.uk was one of fives judges on a tough pan­el. Join­ing her was Andy Lake edi­tor of Flex​i​bil​i​ty​.co​.uk; Jen­nifer Lis­ton-Smith direc­tor of coach­ing and con­sul­tan­cy at My Fam­i­ly Care; Dave Dun­bar head of dig­i­tal work­place at Nation­wide Build­ing Soci­ety; and Clare Kel­li­her pro­fes­sor of work and organ­i­sa­tion at Cran­field School of Man­age­ment. A lot of clever peo­ple with very high standards!

Accord­ing to Gillian the judges were impressed by Madgex’s ​“flex­i­ble, inclu­sive culture”.

“Madgex had com­pelling fig­ures about career pro­gres­sion: 85% of senior man­agers were pro­mot­ed inter­nal­ly, half of them work­ing mums who work flex­i­ble hours,” she said.

“We praised in par­tic­u­lar the company’s spon­sor­ship of Spring For­ward, a month-long series of events cel­e­brat­ing the role of women in dig­i­tal cul­ture. For a busi­ness of that size to be invest­ing in this was a sig­nif­i­cant com­mit­ment. We were also impressed by Madgex’s com­mit­ment to host­ing the She Codes ini­tia­tive, which pro­motes best prac­tice in cod­ing for women.”